Susan Page on Nikki Haley's Chances, Liz Cheney's Future & Biden's Middle East Dilemma
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 675 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | from WNYC studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Wednesday, December 27. |
| 0:13.9 | Susan Page is with us, Washington Bureau Chief for USA Today, among other things here at Year's End. |
| 0:20.5 | She's been watching Liz Cheney's book tour |
| 0:22.7 | and what it might mean for next year's election. Cheney is not ruling out a third-party presidential |
| 0:28.4 | run, for example. Susan has been watching President Biden grapple with and participate in |
| 0:34.5 | the war in the Middle East. We'll discuss the latest on that complicated dance of his. |
| 0:40.2 | And Susan has been watching the Republican primary campaigns take shape. |
| 0:43.6 | For those of you who have been taking a holiday break from the news, |
| 0:46.5 | you may have missed a potentially big story for the 2024 presidential race. |
| 0:52.0 | A poll came out in New Hampshire just a a few days ago, with the primary there |
| 0:57.2 | less than a month away now, that showed Nikki Haley would be just about tied there with Donald |
| 1:02.9 | Trump in a head-to-head matchup, just three points behind with the four-point margin of error |
| 1:09.9 | the poll cites. That assumes, though, that the other |
| 1:13.1 | candidates were to drop out by then. But this is a continuation of a trend that Haley was already |
| 1:19.0 | celebrating in a campaign appearance a few weeks ago. Listen. Donald Trump has started to attack me. |
| 1:28.3 | A couple of days ago at a rally, he said, I don't know what this Nikki Haley surge is all about. |
| 1:34.3 | Do you want me to tell you what it's about? |
| 1:37.3 | It's a new poll that came out in New Hampshire. |
| 1:39.3 | It's got Trump 44, Haley 30. |
| 1:42.3 | We're surging. And if Trump 44 Haley 30. We're surging. |
| 1:53.4 | And if Trump 44, a Haley 30 doesn't actually sound that good, a 14-point gap, that was enough for Haley to sound triumphant then. Now it's just a three-point gap in a hypothetical one-on-one |
| 2:00.2 | matchup if this poll from the Koch brothers conservative |
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